Divers
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Luck is the residue of design
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Branch Rickey
Honkball 1881-1965
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Honkball
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Problems are the price you pay for progress
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Branch Rickey
Honkball 1881-1965
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Honkball
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For four years I was in
every court.
I lost the desire to be like every other sportsman.
But cycling paid and many youngsters have lost faith in justice.
I’m suffering with this letter.
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The world understands
that all my colleagues have been humiliated in their hotel rooms with hidden
TV cameras, that tried to ruin many families. After that how can you not hurt
yourself?
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I don’t know why I
stopped myself in these moments of anger if I made mistakes I’d like to know
that there is proof, but when my sporting life and above all my private life
was violated I lost a lot.
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I’m in this country and I
want to say that “hasta la victoria”
is a great thing for an athlete, but it is more difficult having given your
heart for the sport with accidents and injuries. But I always got back up.
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What is left? Just a lot
of anger and sadness for the violence of the judicial system. My true story
should be an example for other sports. Rules yes, but equal for everybody.
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There’s not a job where
you have to give your blood and where the families of your colleagues are
woken up during the night.
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I was always afraid of
being spied on at home,
in hotels and by TV cameras. I ended up hurting myself to not give up my
intimacy, the intimacy of my girlfriend and of other colleagues who also
lost, of other families who like me were attacked.
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Go and see what a cyclist
is really like.
How many people were involved in my sadness as I tried to make a comeback
with my dreams as a man which were muddied by drugs,
but after my life as an athlete.
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If a bit of humanity
helps us understand and asks what makes us hope, when you make a real mistake
you understand and you fight with your heart.
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This document is the
truth.
My hope is that real men or women can read it and defend equal rules in sport
for everybody. I’m not a liar, I feel hurt and everybody who believed in me
has to speak out.
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This is the text of a note written by Italian cyclist Marco Pantani on nine pages of his passport before his death,
and read out at his funeral by his friend and former manager Manuela Ronchi.
The note appeared to have been written during a recent trip to Cuba. It
was written in Italian
and translated by Reuters
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Wielrennen
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Als ik moet kiezen tussen een vrouw of een
man als coach dan kies ik voor de vrouw.
Het voordeel is dat een vrouw beter hoorbaar is op de kruising.
Ze schreeuwen harder.
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Bob de Jong
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schaatsen
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Als je een ezel een pilleke
geeft, gaat-ie toch nooit een paardenkoers winnen
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Roland Liboton
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Veldrijden
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Always train & never complain
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And on the eighth day God said, “O.K. Murphy. You take over
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Bear to live or dare to
die
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Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
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Schrijver
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Cycling is like
a church – many attend, but few understand.
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Jim Burlant
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Stand-up comedian
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Death is certain, life is
not
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Die middelen waren bestemd voor mijn zieke
hond
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Franck
Vandenbroucke nadat de Rijkswacht bij hem thuis de stimulerende
stoffen epo, clenbuterol
en morfine aangetroffen had
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Wielrennen
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Do it
and if it’s the wrong thing to do,
don’t do it again,
but don’t regret it,
don’t have any regrets,
When you die,
just die
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Neal Wood
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BMX
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Luctor et emergo (ik worstel en kom boven)
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Do one thing, every day, that scares you
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Mary Schmich
Sunscreen speech
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Student
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Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life,
the most interesting people I know, didn’t know at twenty-two what to do with
their lives,
some of the most interesting forty
year olds still don’t
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Mary Schmich – Sunscreen speech
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student
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Don’t waste you time on jealousy,
the race is long,
some times you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind,
but in the end it’s only but yourself
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Mary Schmich – Sunscreen speech
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student
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Don’t waste your time or
time will waste you
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Egotism is the
anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity
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Frank Leahy
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Elk nadeel heb z’n voordeel
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Johan Cruijff, 1997
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Voetbal
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Exercise is bunk.
If you’re healthy, you don’t need it;
if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it
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Henry Ford
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President VS
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For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name
He marks – not that you won or lost –
But how you played the game
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Grantland
Rice, 1880-1954
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Dichter
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Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental
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Jim McKenny,
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ijshockey
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I guess I just have bigger ovaries
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Missy Giove
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Downhill
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I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and
– this always amazes me – not stop to watch,
even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a “good hit,”
which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually
fly out of a player’s body
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Dave Barry
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Commentator
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I have something to say,
It’s better to burn out,
then to fade away
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The Kurgan, Highlander
I
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Film
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I really lack the words to compliment myself today
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Alberto
Tomba
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Skier
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I still feel
that variable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice
of a derailer?
We are getting soft… As for
me, give me a fixed gear!
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Henri Desgrange
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Wielrennen
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I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which
you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun,
and then you continue on.
In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is
known as winter.
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Michael Ventre
L.A. Daily News
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Journalist
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I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out
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Rodney
Dangerfield
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ijshockey
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I’m rather scared to
death, than bored to death
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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Mario Andretti
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Formule 1
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If you think training is fun, you’re not training hard enough
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Sebastian Coe
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Lopen
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I’m on the Zoloft to keep from killing y’all
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Mike Tyson
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Boksen
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In great attempts it is glorious even to fail
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Wilfred A. Peterson
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In Russia,
if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.
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Yakov
Smirnoff
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Stand-up comedian
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It may
be that your sole purpose
in life is simply to
serve as a warning to other
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Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone
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John Mellencamp
– Jack & Diane
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Muziek
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Life is pain
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Life is the slowest form of suicide
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Cease
– Frustration
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Muziek
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Life is what you make it
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Making an animal of yourself relieves the pain of being a man
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Manciata
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Filosoof
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Man was born to live, not just to exist
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Evel Knievel
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Stuntman
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Never eat more than you can lift.
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Miss Piggy
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No guts, no glory
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No pain, no gain
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Of all the things I lost,
I miss my mind the most
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Muziek
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching
it.
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Knute Rockne
1888-1931
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American Football
Noorweegse Coach
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Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano
men moet een gezonde geest in een gezond lichaam wensen
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Juvenal
AD 60-130, Satires X 356
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Filosof
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Pain is French bread
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Pain is inevitable;
suffering is optional
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Pain is temporarily,
glory is forever
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Pain is weakness leaving the body
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“join
the marines”
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Australische advertentie
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare.
There are no winners, only survivors
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Frank Gifford
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American football
coach
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Refuse to loose
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Restlessness is discontent –
and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man –
and I will show you a failure.
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Wetenschapper
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Winston Churchill
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President GB
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Some men see things as the are and say why,
I dream things that never were and say
why not
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Robert Kennedy on his brothers
funeral / George Bernard Shaw:
Back to Methuselah
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Politiek
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Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand
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Matt Hoffman
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succes is een keuze
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Royco cuppasoup
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Reclame
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Success is not final,
failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts
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Winston Churchill
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President GB
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That what does not kill us, makes us stronger
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Friedrich Nietzsche,
Twilight Of The Idols
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Filosoof
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The best rides are the ones where you
bite off much more than you can chew–and
live through it
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Doug Bradbury
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Wielrennen
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The more you sweat in practice,
the less you bleed in battle
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but
taking part.
The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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Baron de Coubertin, 1908 speech london
Olympic games
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Saying the word doesn’t make is so
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I was born ready
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The Only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good men to do nothing
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Edmund
Burke
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The problem with Italian food is that six days later you’re hungry
again
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Frank Miller, 1991
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marathon
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The revolution will not
be televised
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There is a feeling I get,
when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving
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Led Zeppelin
stairway to heaven
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Muziek
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There is no trying, only
doing
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There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore
like an idiot
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Steven Wright
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Stand-up comedian
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These are my new shoes.
They’re good shoes.
They won’t make you rich like me,
they won’t make you rebound like me,
they definitely won’t make you handsome like me.
They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.
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Charles Barkley
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Basketball
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This is the world,
men are the gas pedals and women are
the brakes
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thought no more was needed
Youth to prolong
Than dumb-bell and foil
To keep the body young.
O who would have foretold
That the heart grows old ?
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W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939
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Dichter
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Thy shal not weigh more than thy
refrigerator
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no
choreography, and the dancers hit each other
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Jack Handey
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Boksen
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Trainen is een teken van onzekerheid
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Jacob Huisman
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Skutsje-zeiler
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Voordat ik een fout maak, maak ik die fout
niet
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Johan Cruijff, 1997
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Voetbal
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We all live in the
gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars
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We get nose jobs all the
time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital
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Brad Park
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IJshockey
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What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog
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Bear
Bryant
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American football
Coach
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when asked his greatest strengths as a football player :
“Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately
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Reggie Williams
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American Football
speler
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With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions
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Pete Rose
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Honkbal
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You are never too skinny, too rich are to
heavily armed
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Ice-T, Deep
Blue Sea
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Film
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You can’t break me, because you didn’t make me
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Rubin
“Hurricane” Carter
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Boksen
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You talk the talk, but do
you walk the walk
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Youth is wasted on the
young
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